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Are there any open source online survey software that enable researchers to use experience-sampling methods, e.g. online diaries (where people answer similar survey questions repeatedly and are notified and reminded)? Free, but not open source, would also be interesting.

Please only post solutions, that you have actually used for experience-sampling research, not ones that "might be easily adapted".

There are so many of these out there, is it even worth discussing this?
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JonathanDec 7 '12 at 18:12

@jon Name one. I'm in this field and I don't share your perception.
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RubenDec 8 '12 at 10:38

Sorry, I just saw that in your question text you specify "open source" solutions. I'm not aware of any open source solutions.
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JonathanDec 8 '12 at 22:09

For commercial solutions I only know Qualtrics and I heard they're also fairly new to this, ie apparently you can't get a mobile experience sampling app going in a week. But yes I'm looking for open source, though simply free ones wouldn't hurt either. I'm not aware of any either. @Jon
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RubenDec 10 '12 at 9:14

for commercial ones, I've used Revelation from KDA and have seen demos of Luminosity and Qualvu... not free. Most survey companies will be willing to "fake it" by manually sending notifications to an online or mobile panel. Why the interest in open-source particularly - for academia?
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JonathanDec 10 '12 at 17:38

MyExperience is available for free on SourceForge in beta release.
Please see our wiki for documentation and our blog for updates.
MyExperience combines sensing and self-report to collect both
quantitative and qualitative data on human behaviors, attitudes and
activities in the field. Using a mobile phone's wireless connectivity
to the internet, researchers have the ability to access MyExperience
data as it's collected allowing for ongoing analysis of study data and
early detection of subject compliance or technology issues.

MyExperience is based on a three tier architecture of sensors,
triggers and actions; triggers use sensor event data to conditionally
launch actions. One novel aspect of MyExperience is that its behavior
and user interface are specified via XML and a lightweight scripting
language similar to the HTML/JavaScript paradigm on the web.